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Gros Morne National Park of Canada

Discover The Earth's History at Your Feet

600 million-year-old rock

239 species of bird

60-metre waterfalls

Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its geological significance, Gros Morne helped scientists understand how continents form. Love plate tectonics? Chat with a geologist who has come to this UNESCO World Heritage Site to identify the rock layers exposed by Cambrian Period continental drift.

You can hike across rocky Tablelands that hid under the sea 1200 million years ago and then pause on the grass-covered edge of an Atlantic cliff. Board a boat that travels to the farthest end of a glacially-carved fjord. Taste the spray of a waterfall that is so tall that it turns to mist before it reaches bottom. Walk a boardwalk, hike to sea stack formations, or camp next to mooseprints. Whenever you're ready, turn into town for a neighbourly lobster boil-up.

Why you should visit

Stand where magma boiled and continents collided in a UNESCO-preserved World Heritage Site.

Walk the eery Tablelands, where the moon-like soil once hid deep in the Earth's mantle.

Camp at the foot of a fjord, then board a Bon Tour boat to travel its length the next morning.

Descend through lush boreal forest on the Green Gardens trail and identify the calls of swallows, warblers and thrush.

Weather

July and August are warm and dry and weather remains pleasant in September and October. Winter brings colder temperatures, wind, and snow. Spring arrives late, with many trails remaining snow-covered into May.